350 secondary school students from six secondary schools in Dorset attended the very first Fossil Festival secondary school day hosted by the Thomas Hardye School on Thursday 3rd May 2012. The Natural History Museum, Jurassic Coast Team and the Thomas Hardye School Fossil Club led 12 stands at the event where students from the Thomas…
The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival seems to be getting bigger and more exciting every year and this year was no exception. Thousands of people visited Lyme Regis over the May bank holiday weekend to enjoy the experience. The Jurassic Coast Team had a stand inside the marquee and ran a number of activities including a…
Over the last few years we have noticed that some of the wave cut platforms along Monmouth Beach west of Lyme Regis have been breaking and even bursting out of the shore platforms. The most spectacular event took place over the last two weeks of July 2011 when an area 8 m by 3m lifted…
The series of guided walks run by the Coastlink partnership continues through the summer. The latest walks are in the Weymouth and Portland area and will continue Eastward every Saturday until the end of August. Participants have given high praise to the series that aims to showcase the coast, its diverse natural heritage and the…
A project to raise the awareness of the loss of global biodiversity has tolled the first ever full sized bell cast from Portland Roach stone… Confused? Read on. The MEMO Project – Mass Extinction Memorial Observatory – has been created by a stone carver Sebastian Brooke and aims to create an inspirational monument on Portland…
Coastal Voices Performance at Beer Quarry Caves June 1st was a first in many ways. A group of people from across Devon, including children from Seaton Primary school and B Sharp, arrived at Beer Quarry Caves to perform the world premiere of Sturzstrom, a Landscape Event for Voice composed by Marc Yeats. The piece is…
Five sixth formers from Queen Elizabeth’s represented the Jurassic Coast at a three day UNESCO World Heritage Youth Summit in Greenwich, London between 27th – 29th June. The students met 120 other young ambassador’s of World Heritage from sites around the UK including the Giant’s Causeway, Heart of Neolthic Orkney and Blaenavon Industrial Landscape. The…
Some of you may have noticed a new feature on the Weymouth Skyline. The 165ft high Weymouth Sealife Tower, created by Entertainments giants Merlin, has started to show the Jurassic Coast, Weymouth and Portland off to its passengers from a whole new perspective. The Tower is a fairly simple concept; you go up 53m in…
After about ten years of planning and hard work, July 21st will see the long-awaited re-opening of the refurbished and extended Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre. Having been completed just in time for the Olympics, the expanded centre will have a temporary exhibition over the summer months focusing on a marine theme. Dorset Wildlife Trust…